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Chicken-Fried News: Book learnin’

Hey, you. Yeah, you. Thank you for reading. Not just Chicken-Fried News or even Oklahoma Gazette, but just, you know, reading, like, in general. Despite ample opportunities to fill your head with misinformation and garbage in the internet age, reading continues to be an excellent gateway drug to actually knowing stuff, and despite what the […]

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OKG Lifestyle: Christina Kirk

Around OKC EAT pad thai at Sala Thai WATCH The Politician (Netflix) LISTEN  “Harder Dreams” by John Moreland READ The Aislings by Brandy Williams LOVE Full Circle Bookstore EXPERIENCE  Threshold Climbing + Fitness Outside OKC EAT  Lovera’s Grocers in Krebs WATCH The Mandalorian (Disney+) LISTEN The Moth Radio Hour podcast READ Grand Union by Zadie Smith […]

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Radio Okie

Michael Dean book signing 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday Full Circle Bookstore 1900 Northwest Expressway, Suite 135 fullcirclebooks.com 405-842-2900 Free In Ardmore in 1953, Michael Dean saw a television for the first time. He was not impressed. “The couple that lived on the end of the block bought a TV, and they had to put a tower […]

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Individually artistic

Daring ideas don’t generally have a long shelf life in the arts, so maintaining a gallery and organization based around avant garde poetry, visual art and performance seems unlikely to last beyond the gestation phase. Yet Individual Artists Of Oklahoma (IAO) has endured for 40 years by pulling in new and innovative talents from a […]

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Processing death

Kim Ventrella book signings 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday Full Circle Bookstore 1900 Northwest Expressway fullcirclebooks.com 405-842-2900 1-2:30 p.m. March 9 Best of Books 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond bestofbooksok.com 405-340-9202 Working as a librarian, Oklahoma City author Kim Ventrella saw how often children want to be frightened. “I figured being a librarian would be a good […]

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Midtown addition

Between bites of a meal, a person gets up from a seat at a kitchen counter and flips the Black Keys album Attack & Release on the nearby record turntable.  It’s a scene that could easily describe any home kitchen, but it takes place in the recently opened Kitchen at Commonplace Books, 1325 N. Walker […]

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